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This is the story of a group of thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boys living out the war in a remote corner of the English countryside. Middle class evacuees or farmers' sons, their one aim is to use the time well until they will be old enough to fight. The year is 1942 and even in this quiet corner of Norfolk the second-hand excitement of war reaches them through the cinema, the newspapers and the 'jingoistic' talk of the adults. Stimulated by...

Excerpt from Life of Adam SmithBirth and parentage, I. Adam Smith senior, 1, his death and funeral, 3. Smith's mother, 4. Burgh School of Kirkcaldy, 5. Schoolmaster's drama, 6. School fellows, 6. Industries of Kirkcaldy, 7.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-...

A chance meeting at the Menin Gate in 1969 between a young War Studies lecturer and an elderly Benedictine monk sparks a close friendship - one that will ultimately lead a dying Father Peter Quinn to entrust a family's tragic secret to John Malcolm. John discovers that his friend has asked him to read a manuscript. Written by Katherine Kennedy, it recounts the story of her husband Tom and the years leading up to his death - a death shrouded in...

A useful antidote to much of the fashionable nonsense written about education. Letters to Parents is packed with good sense and can be confidently prescribed in all cases of parental stress and anxiety." Daily Telegraph "John Rae demonstrates common sense on each page. The more parents who read this book, the better." Chris Woodhead, Chief Inspector of Schools More than ever before, a child's chances of a good education depend on parents makin...

A WOMAN FOR HER TIME... Sister Genevieve had no idea that the neighbourhood surrounding St Louise's would soon become a war zone. In fact, Catholic families would be routed out of their homes by Protestant bombs, street battles would rage between the IRA and British soldiers on patrol. West Belfast would go up in smoke, with her girls in the middle of it all. Many would lose their fathers to the army, to prison, or to the grave. But she would ...

On a sultry, threatening summer afternoon, Siobhan, Penelope, Alyce and Emily are picnicking. When the storm breaks they run for shelter - straight into an unfamiliar world which they don't understand and where they seem to be in some danger. They have somehow (but how?) arrived, as they gradually come to realise, in some dark corner of the past, and the people they have to deal with are plotting a terrible massacre. Where and of whom, the gir...

Returning from the theatre with the family one bitterly cold night, Alyce and Emily discover a tramp asleep under a railway bridge. The next day, the girls feel impelled to search him out in wintry London, and from then on Benedict O'Hara becomes their worry and concern. Does he really want to return to his native Ireland for Christmas? And, anyway, could the fare be raised in such a short time? However, for Alyce there is the more disturbing,...

These diaries reveal beneath the serious public persona of John Rae a schoolmaster who got a lot of fun from the antics and the wit of his boys... an enjoyable read." The Spectator "Rae 's writing is fresh, droll and poignant and the energy he displays here is prodigous." Daily Telegraph "Gripping." Evening Standard John Rae was one of the most charismatic and controversial figures in British education. His reputation as a great reformer was f...

It was Jonny who had not liked the idea of spending a night alone in Westminster Abbey, the great London Cathedral, with his twin brother Shamus, but it was Jonny who volunteered to be held hostage by the ghostly crowd of princes, kings and warriors who came to life at midnight, as a protest against the all-night opening of the Abbey. But just as the ghosts were there all night, and gone with the dawn, so too was Jonny, leaving Shamus to convi...

It is one thing to say that you do not believe in ghosts and quite another to walk alone through the Abbey cloisters after dark...' Going through the cloisters one evening, Emily bumps into a stranger. In the gloom she cannot see who he is, but it seems that he wears a monk's habit, and has only a stump where his hand should be. Soon after this unnerving experience, Emily and her older sisters, Penelope and Alyce, are puzzled by the appearance...

Reproduction of the original: Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Reproduction of the original: Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Reproduction of the original: Life of Adam Smith by John Rae

Reproduction of the original: Life of Adam Smith by John Rae

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